Improved composition for the cure of hog-cholera



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W. B. ROBUCK, OF OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI.

Letters Patent No. 85,855, dated January 12, 1869.

ILIPROVEID COIVIPOSITION FOR THE CURE OF HOG-CHOLERA.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To dll whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, W. B. ROBUCK, of Oxford, in the county of Lafayette, and State of Mississippi, have invented a new and improved Composition for the Cure of Hog-Cholera; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the'sam'e.

The object of this invention is to provide for public use a cheap specific for hog-cholera.

For this purpose, I take one pound of poke-root, one pound of May-apple root, one-fourth of a pound of J erusalem-oak seed, one gallon of water, mix them together, and boil the mixture down to one quart. To this I add one pint of lye, one-half ounce of arsenic, two ounces of copperas, and one ounce of bluestone. 

